Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.
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Related Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel... THOMAS P.M. BARNETT Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still hav... MICHIO KAKU When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we'r... KARAN MAHAJAN Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American ci... PETER L. BERGEN When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the f... TOM CONTI Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized. PETER DIAMANDIS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'... SCOTT BAKULA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that'... ROBERT ENGLUND Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you tra... NOAM CHOMSKY This is the only one that survived 9/11. After that everyone said they wanted to stay close to home.... JOE BURNETT That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of yo... NAOMI KLEIN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON 'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there... CAITLYN JENNER As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, wor... DIANE ACKERMAN I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. EVA GREEN Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back ... DANIEL LIBESKIND I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll fee... DAVE GAHAN We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally... ARIANNA HUFFINGTON I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road. DOLLY PARTON We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it c... ZEV YAROSLAVSKY The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read. JANE LINDSKOLD Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks. BRAD FELD One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is tha... CRAIG VENTER It is only because of my own powers that I survived the attack at all, BRUCE DICKINSON “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfis... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn abo... JACK HANNA I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used ... MEGAN MULLALLY I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the p... JEFF SMISEK I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'l... ROBERT MANKOFF We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Ne... DREW CURTIS I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t. CAREW PAPRITZ If you think about Cisco's offerings like TelePresence, where it's an immersive way to commu... PADMASREE WARRIOR The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfo... CASEY NEISTAT She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and ... EMMA DONOGHUE I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get rig... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I... TED CRUZ My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won&... CARL STOKES The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In... STEVE EARLE From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an aver... ERNIE ELS What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? F. SCOTT FITZGERALD When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING We are honored to one again air upwards of 40 games on WB-11, including at least 10 in (high definit... BILL LANESEY It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined ... JAMES CAMERON I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed... WALTON GOGGINS Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the burea... DAVID HUNT People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facil... GERHARD RICHTER I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her p... TED OLSON Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Lo... RIAN JOHNSON I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye ... NINA DOBREV Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we&... JAMES MATTIS I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren... SHASHI THAROOR I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect La... ALEXANDRA PETRI The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrori... DICK CHENEY I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It ... DANIEL DENNETT I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for m... QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. ... BETSY BRANDT Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle th... CRISTINA SARALEGUI No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention w... JANDY NELSON I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air... CORBIN BERNSEN We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' ... TERRY WOGAN I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, be... KRYSTEN RITTER Making air travel more expensive is certainly not the way to help the third world. ANTHONY CONCIL We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in... ARTO LINDSAY I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforce... DICK CHENEY We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it ri... CHERYL JAMES There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus... PATRICIA SUN In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause re... HARRY TRIGUBOFF The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there.... BRENE BROWN We'll do it, we'll do it. ZINEDINE ZIDANE If I ever score against Spurs, I won't celebrate. Even if it's the best goal in the world, I... JERMAIN DEFOE We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11... TOM BROKAW One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN' My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall St... PETER SCHIFF The fact that we haven't faced another major terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11 is... ALEX BERENSON I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't m... DAVID WENHAM The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly ... GEOFF DYER I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't... PETER JENNINGS And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms ... JESSE EISENBERG I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be ther... D. A. PENNEBAKER A lot of times we work across multiple platforms. We'll go to Japan working on the tsunami for &... LESTER HOLT The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to ... IMTIAZ ALI Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wr... CHRISTOPHER MELONI 'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to hav... SHANE CARRUTH I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.'... GRANT MORRISON The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the sam... BILLY CONNOLLY You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or se... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I... JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had ... JOSH FOX The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about th... MCKAYLA MARONEY Furloughing a bunch of air traffic controllers has a pretty easy-to-predict effect on air travel: It... ALEX PAREENE
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It gets up and drops its trousers. BRUCE DICKINSON I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. BRUCE JENNER Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity pre... BRUCE MARTON To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... BRUCE CATTON In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu... BRUCE BARTON Circumstances hell! I make circumstances! BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,... BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t... BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty... BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo... BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th... BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min... BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct... BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh... LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik... BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa... LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t... BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance... LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ... BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va... BRUCE BARTON